India's Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa upset Indonesian Vita Marissa and Nadya Melati in the women's doubles quarter-finals. ...
09:29 AM, Aug 13, 2011
London: India's Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa stormed into the semifinal of the World Badminton championships here on Friday but India's best hope Saina Nehwal bowed out in the quarters. The Jwala-Ashwini duo upset Indonesian Vita Marissa and Nadya Melati 17-21, 21-10, 21-17 in the women's doubles; however, Saina couldn't break her quarterfinal jinx in the women's singles, losing to Xin Wang of China 15-21, 10-21. Saina, seeded sixth, went...
06:43 PM, Aug 12, 2011
London: Saina Nehwal stormed into the quarterfinals of the World Badminton Championship after zooming past Pui Yin Yip of Hong Kong in the third round of the women's singles event here on Thursday. The world number six Indian didn't waste any time in getting into the rhythm and was leading 13-5 in the second game when 14th seed Pui Yin retired to bring a premature end to the match. However,...
10:21 PM, Aug 11, 2011
London: Former winner Taufik Hidayat was unceremoniously ousted from the world championships in the second round on Wednesday, beaten 21-17, 21-14 by unseeded Zi Liang Derek Wong from Singapore. It was an unwelcome 30th birthday present for the Indonesian who reached last year's final in Paris but played some way below his best at a modestly-attended Wembley Arena. Wong, 22, thoroughly deserved his victory, his agility round the court and...
02:07 PM, Aug 11, 2011
London: India's Saina Nehwal and Ajay Jayaram advanced to the third round of the World Badminton Championships with fluent victories here on Wednesday. Saina dispatched Chloe Magee of Ireland 21-10, 21-7. The sixth seeded Indian, who got a bye in the first round, took 26 minutes to go past Chloe. Jayaram, who is playing in his first World Championships, beat Vladimir Ivanov of Russia 21-19, 21-17. The Mumbai boy, who...
06:46 PM, Aug 10, 2011
London: Commonwealth Games bronze-medallist P Kashyap defeated Germany's Domke Dieter in a hard-fought three-game affair to enter the second round of the World Badminton Championships here. Kashyap got past his gritty rival 21-13, 23-25, 21-11 in a match that lasted close to an hour. He will face seventh seed Tien Minh Nguyen of Vietnam in the second round. The world number 28 Indian, who had beaten Dieter thrice before -...
12:25 PM, Aug 10, 2011
London: China's Lin Dan eased into the second round of the world championships with a 21-11, 21-10 success over Lithuanian Kestutis Navickas on Tuesday. The Chinese suffered a surprise quarterfinal exit in last year's tournament in Paris after three world titles in a row but looked in good shape at the Wembley Arena against his world-ranked 40 opponent. Lin's return of some heavy smashing coupled with sharp reflexes took him...
11:46 AM, Aug 10, 2011
London: Curtains fell on India's campaign in the men's doubles event of the World Badminton Championships after the pair of Rupesh Kumar and Sanave Thomas went down fighting in the second round here on Tuesday. Rupesh and Sanave squandered a one-game lead to lose 19-21 21-11 21-12 in 48 minutes to eighth seeded Indonesian duo of Alvent Yulianto Chandra and Hendra Aprida Gunawan. Rupesh and Sanave had earlier defeated the...
10:47 PM, Aug 09, 2011
London: Returning to the court after more than a month, India's ace shuttler Saina Nehwal will have to get into rhythm quickly when she begins her campaign in the World Badminton Championship starting here on Monday. The 21-year-old, who reached the quarterfinals in the last two editions of the mega-event, has been troubled by an ankle injury this year, but is completely fit now after undergoing rigorous preparation for the...
03:41 PM, Aug 07, 2011
New Delhi: Her troubling ankle completely healed, ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal can't wait for the World Championships next week but conceded that months of rigorous preparation would count only if she gets into the rhythm quickly at the London mega-event. The 21-year-old took a break after the Indonesian Super Series to train for the event and said she will take it one round at a time from August 8...
12:06 PM, Aug 03, 2011
Paris: India's Saina Nehwal crashed out of the World Badminton Championships losing 8-21, 14-21 to Chinese Shixian Wang in the quarterfinals at the Pierre de Coubertin stadium here on Friday. With Saina's fall it was the end of the road for India as the ninth-seeded mixed doubles pair of Jwala Gutta and V. Diju also went down to 12th-seeded Korean Sung Hyun Ko, seeded 12th, 16-21, 19-21. Saina, who had...
08:32 PM, Aug 27, 2010
Paris: In Paris to clinch the world no. 1 spot, India's ace shuttler and currently world no. 2 Saina Nehwal shared her experience after winning the Round-3 match of the World Badminton Championship against Russia's Ella Diehl here on Thursday. Talking to the media, Saina compared Thursday's match with the one she played against Diehl in Indonesia. "Last time when I played her in Indonesia, she was good. But today...
02:49 PM, Aug 27, 2010
Paris: Ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal stormed into the quarter-finals of the World Badminton Championships, beating Russia's Ella Diehl in straight games here on Thursday. The second seeded Indian took just 40 minutes to tame 13th seed Diehl 21-14, 21-18 in the third round of the women's singles event. But minutes before the start of Saina's match, world number one and top seed Yihan Wang of China was stunned by...
07:42 PM, Aug 26, 2010
Paris: The Indian mixed doubles pair of V Diju and Jwala Gutta overcame early sluggishness to beat Singapore's Chayut Triyachart and Lei Yao and enter the quarterfinals of the World Badminton Championships here on Thursday. Diju and Jwala, quarterfinalists at the last World Championships in Hyderabad, won 14-21, 21-18, 21-14. The Indians will now face 12th seeds South Korea's Sung Hyun Ko and Jung Eun Ha for a place in...
05:39 PM, Aug 26, 2010
Paris: Ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal survived a scare before prevailing over unseeded Chinese Taipei's Hsian Huan Chen in a thrilling three-game match to reach the pre-quarterfinals of World Championship here on Wednesday. The second seed Indian, one of the hot favourites to win the World title, beat Chen 20-22, 21-15, 21-8 in the second round of the women's singles here. Saina was clearly not in her elements in the...
06:25 PM, Aug 25, 2010
Paris: Top Indian shuttler Chetan Anand crashed out of the World Badminton Championships with a disappointing straight-game defeat against a lowly-ranked opponent in the men's singles first round here on Tuesday. Chetan, the highest ranked Indian in the fray and seeded 14th in the prestigious event, lost 14-21, 18-21 to Singapore's Ong Zhao Ashton Chen who is placed 107th in world rankings. The world number 15 Indian, who recovered from...
07:57 PM, Aug 24, 2010
Hyderabad: Saina Nehwal has been on a hot streak of late with three consecutive super series titles. But over the next week, she has the chance to scale an even higher summit, win the world championships that start in Paris later on Tuesday. The Hyderabadi hurricane has unfinished business at the World Championships. Laid low by chicken pox just before last year's World Championship in Hyderabad, Saina Nehwal battled hard...
03:08 PM, Aug 24, 2010
Paris: Defending Champion Lin Dan of China and top-seed Malaysian Lee Chong Wei advanced to the second round after notching up straight-set wins over their rivals in the World badminton Championship here on Monday. Three-time World Champion Lin made short work of Iran's Ali Shahhosseini 21-4, 21-10 in 26 minutes in the men's singles category. The Chinese ace was brilliant on court even though he disputed a line call despite...
07:51 PM, Aug 23, 2010
Star shuttler Saina Nehwal will lead India's challenge in the World Championship in Paris in August. ...
07:46 PM, Jul 13, 2010
Wang Lin defeated Saina 21-16, 21-19 in the women's singles quarterfinal. ...
03:57 AM, Aug 18, 2009
